Yusaku Maezawa Quotes

I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.

I always want to do something groundbreaking, something different. I think that's what it's always about. If you have the means to do it, why not?

I'm always trying to do things that no one has ever seen before.

Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

I've been fortunate to come on places where the question isn't why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didn't anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

If you are truly innovating, you don't have a prototype you can refer to.

I think when you're doing something cutting edge like 'The Matrix,' it might mean when everybody's saying 'no' that you're really on the right track.

I believe in being an innovator.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

What I have done here no one has done before.

The man with a new idea is a crank until his idea succeeds.

I haven't broken any new ground in the form of a film.

Pioneering companies always try out new things and experiment with new concepts and new things.

If you show me someone who's afraid of failure, I'll show you someone who is not a groundbreaking, innovative pioneer of a certain industry.

Nobody's interested in something that could've been done before.

Believe me, what I have done in 'Company' has never been attempted before.

I think if you want to be groundbreaking, you have to do something that's never been done.

You have to push the boundary, do something that people haven't seen before, because then it is exciting for them.

We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.

There's no-one in particular that we look up to, because we strive to be something that's never gone before.

Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood.

Everything we are doing is on the cutting edge of so many different industries and so many different interests. We're out there in the sunshine, and it feels fine.

The most successful people are so original.

The world has always gone forward when people have dared to have crazy ideas.